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It's the morning of June the 29th and the cattle are pretty happy right now
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I've given them some fresh grass and you can hear them eating
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There's about 45 animals in our pasture now. But I want to show you where these cattle came from
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I've got a little strategy going on here to help improve the soil
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And it has to do with when I take the animals off a certain section
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So, as you can see here, they've got lots of grass, it's fresh
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They've just moved in here about 20 minutes ago. But let's go over and take a look at the place where they were
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It's on the other side of this electrical fence tape here. And you'll see it's not eaten right off
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Some people might accuse me of wasting some grass here. And if I had left the cattle on this section longer
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they would have pulled more feed off of it. But I took them off now when there's still plenty of grass on there
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and plenty left that have been trampled into the ground. That's kind of what I want to do here
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What I've found is that the grass that's left and that gets trampled down to soil level
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provides food for microorganisms in the soil and helps to improve it
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We've been rotational grazing here for a number of years and it's interesting to see how the productivity of the land has increased during that time
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And I think part of that is not grazing the grass down very hard
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Especially as the summer progresses and things get dry, as they are now
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You can just see here kind of a stark difference between the grazed side of the line and the ungrazed side
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So I just thought you might like to see
